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Seven dollars and twenty-five cents is the federal minimum wage and, this week, workers in
7 cities have gone to the streets demanding their pay be doubled to 15 dollars an hour. They hope to embarrass brands like
McDonald’s—chains claiming their franchisees provide short-term, entry-level
jobs while only making marginal profits. The Detroit Institute of Arts includes
masterpieces from all over the world.
Will they be sold off in bankruptcy proceedings—or protected as
essential to “the soul of the city?” And
on today’s Talking Point, after five weeks in a Moscow airport, the fugitive
leaker Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum—with permission to
live, and possibly work, in Russia for at least a year.

Banner Image: Protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald's in NYC, Andrew Kelly/REUTERS

Since it’s founding in 1885, the Detroit Institute of Arts, or DIA, has collected acknowledged masterpieces by American artists and others from all over the world. The prospect of selling them off to pay creditors has raised questions about the soul of the city.

Seven dollars and twenty-five cents is the federal minimum wage and, this week, workers in
7 cities have gone to the streets demanding their pay be doubled to 15 dollars an hour. They hope to embarrass brands like
McDonald’s—chains claiming their franchisees provide short-term, entry-level
jobs while only making marginal profits.What would increased wages mean for the
price of fast food? Is there likely to be any change?